On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Eric Martin wrote:
On 03/23/11 12:19, Joshua Demallistre wrote:
I was thinking about giving Gentoo a try. It would be nice for some one in the group could give me a hand.
What sort of help are you looking for? There used to be a disproportionately large Gentoo user base in WLUG, although I don't know how large it is anymore. I use it at home and work and I'd be glad to help you out. For me, the great thing about Gentoo is the learning experience; I learned a lot about GNU/Linux by doing my first Gentoo installs, and I'm still learning. If you haven't already, grab the install discs and peruse through the install docs. If you have a 64bit machine, I suggest grabbing the 64bit disc. Maintaining Gentoo x64 isn't terribly hard, and you can use memory more efficiently.
Gentoo user here, too. Although I haven't done a fresh install in quite a while, I just keep updating. What I like best about Gentoo is picking and choosing which packages to include and leave out, both applications and libraries. For example, the other day I wanted to install "gtkpod", but I really don't want to have Mono or QT4 installed on my system, for various reasons. Doing a test install, I can verify that they are left out: # emerge -ptv gtkpod These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-pda/gtkpod-1.0.0 USE="aac flac mp3 ogg -curl" 1,856 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libgpod-0.8.0 USE="gtk iphone python udev -mono -static-libs" 975 kB [nomerge ] media-libs/libgpod-0.8.0 USE="gtk iphone python udev -mono -static-libs" [nomerge ] sys-apps/sg3_utils-1.30 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/rescan-scsi-bus-1.48 21 kB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sg3_utils-1.30 863 kB [ebuild N ] app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.0.4 USE="python" 404 kB [ebuild N ] app-pda/usbmuxd-1.0.6 57 kB [ebuild N ] app-pda/libplist-1.3 67 kB [ebuild U ] dev-util/cmake-2.8.3-r1 [2.8.0-r2] USE="ncurses -emacs -qt4 -vim-syntax" 5,310 kB ... The USE= "-mono" and "-qt4" flags indicate that the listed packages will be built without that support. Gentoo handles that by passing the necessary options to "configure" when it builds the package, and that is IMO the main point of using a source-based distribution. If you *did* want support for mono, you could edit "/etc/make.conf" (system-wide) or "/etc/portage/package.use" (package-specific), add the "mono" flag (or remove "-mono"), and try again. For better or worse, I think gentoo kind of peaked in popularity several years ago. Related article, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10047439-16.html?tag=mncol;title But it still meets my needs on several of my computers. And finally, yes, I am aware of "http://funroll-loops.info/", and I don't care. :) -Jamie
Just a couple of thoughts. 1. for a good commentary on the gentoo handbook I recommend the blog postings of Vincent Zoonekynd. He's French, he's modest and he's very insightful. http://zoonek.free.fr/blosxom/Linux/2006-01-01_Gentoo.html 2. You can probably install it with a slax cd. Or a gentoo disk of course. Either has a /proc/config.gz which will work very well with genkernel to compile a kernel. After you have emerged genkernel type: zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 Then genkernel all to create a kernel and initramfs. Of course for a 64-bit machine you should zcat it to the appropriate subdirectory which I believe is x86_64 On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Jamie Guinan <guinan@bluebutton.com> wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Eric Martin wrote:
On 03/23/11 12:19, Joshua Demallistre wrote:
I was thinking about giving Gentoo a try. It would be nice for some one in the group could give me a hand.
What sort of help are you looking for? There used to be a disproportionately large Gentoo user base in WLUG, although I don't know how large it is anymore. I use it at home and work and I'd be glad to help you out. For me, the great thing about Gentoo is the learning experience; I learned a lot about GNU/Linux by doing my first Gentoo installs, and I'm still learning. If you haven't already, grab the install discs and peruse through the install docs. If you have a 64bit machine, I suggest grabbing the 64bit disc. Maintaining Gentoo x64 isn't terribly hard, and you can use memory more efficiently.
Gentoo user here, too. Although I haven't done a fresh install in quite a while, I just keep updating.
What I like best about Gentoo is picking and choosing which packages to include and leave out, both applications and libraries. For example, the other day I wanted to install "gtkpod", but I really don't want to have Mono or QT4 installed on my system, for various reasons. Doing a test install, I can verify that they are left out:
# emerge -ptv gtkpod
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-pda/gtkpod-1.0.0 USE="aac flac mp3 ogg -curl" 1,856 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libgpod-0.8.0 USE="gtk iphone python udev -mono -static-libs" 975 kB [nomerge ] media-libs/libgpod-0.8.0 USE="gtk iphone python udev -mono -static-libs" [nomerge ] sys-apps/sg3_utils-1.30 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/rescan-scsi-bus-1.48 21 kB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sg3_utils-1.30 863 kB [ebuild N ] app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.0.4 USE="python" 404 kB [ebuild N ] app-pda/usbmuxd-1.0.6 57 kB [ebuild N ] app-pda/libplist-1.3 67 kB [ebuild U ] dev-util/cmake-2.8.3-r1 [2.8.0-r2] USE="ncurses -emacs -qt4 -vim-syntax" 5,310 kB ...
The USE= "-mono" and "-qt4" flags indicate that the listed packages will be built without that support. Gentoo handles that by passing the necessary options to "configure" when it builds the package, and that is IMO the main point of using a source-based distribution.
If you *did* want support for mono, you could edit "/etc/make.conf" (system-wide) or "/etc/portage/package.use" (package-specific), add the "mono" flag (or remove "-mono"), and try again.
For better or worse, I think gentoo kind of peaked in popularity several years ago. Related article,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10047439-16.html?tag=mncol;title
But it still meets my needs on several of my computers.
And finally, yes, I am aware of "http://funroll-loops.info/", and I don't care. :)
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